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SUBSCRIPTION SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2016 JAMADA ALAWWAL 26, 1437 AH No: 16804 Anime, manga Black belt Lina Messi hat-trick enthusiasts gather empowers fellow steers Barca to at Plamo4 Con Jordanian26 women unbeaten48 record Gunmen kill 16 at Min 17º 150 Fils Yemen care home Max 30º Four foreign nuns among the dead ADEN: Gunmen attacked a care home Yemenis, Indians and Ethiopians, the run by missionaries in Yemen’s south- source said, adding that seven women ern city of Aden yesterday, killing 16 were among those killed. The source said workers including four foreign nuns, the assailants opened fire separately at officials said. There was no immediate every victim they tied up in different claim of responsibility, but Aden has parts of the building. “We have never wit- seen a surge in attacks by the Islamic nessed such a brutal crime,” he said, State group and rival Al-Qaeda. Four adding that the killing spree lasted one gunmen entered the refuge operated hour. “I went out for Friday prayers. When by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of I came back, I found all my friends dead,” Charity in Aden’s Sheikh Othman dis- one of the residents said. trict, killing a guard before tying up and Yemeni Prime Minister Khalid Bahah shooting employees, security officials said in a statement that security forces told AFP. were hunting down the “terrorists” who Screams of elderly residents echoed carried out the attack. One official said from the home during the shooting the attackers were “extremists” and rampage, witnesses said. They recount- blamed the Islamic State group, which ed seeing the bodies of slain workers has been gaining ground in Aden in with their arms tied behind their backs recent months. scattered on the blood-stained floor as It is not the first deadly attack on the aged residents cried out in fear. the Mother Teresa order in Yemen. In Apart from the four foreign nuns, the 1998, three of its nuns were shot dead rest of those killed were Yemenis work- in western Yemen by a psychiatric ing at the facility, officials said. patient who had volunteered to fight Sunita Kumar, a spokeswoman for alongside Bosnian Muslims in 1992 the Missionaries of Charity in the Indian before returning to the Arabian city of Kolkata, said the members of the Peninsula country. Once a cosmopoli- charity were “absolutely stunned” at the tan city home to thriving Hindu and killing. “The sisters were to come back Christian communities, Aden has but they opted to stay on to serve peo- gone from one of the world’s busiest ADEN: Yemeni pro-government fighters inspect an elderly care home in this southern city after it was ple” in Yemen, she added. She also said ports as a key hub of the British attacked by gunmen yesterday. — AFP that two of the killed nuns were from Empire to a largely lawless backwater. Rwanda and the other two were from Aden’s small Christian population left India and Kenya. long ago. Unknown assailants have Kuwait refines oil pricing in The official sabanews.net website cit- previously vandalized a Christian ed another security source as saying that cemetery, torched a church and last battle for Europe customers the victims were nurses, guards, cooks year blew up an abandoned Catholic and other employees. They include church. — Agencies DUBAI/LONDON: OPEC member Kuwait has changed development said. Trading sources said that from late the way it prices oil for Europe, trading sources said, in a last year the state-run Kuwait Petroleum Corporation rare tactical move aimed at making its crude more com- (KPC) began pricing its European exports against the dat- petitive as the battle for customers between OPEC and ed Brent benchmark after years of following OPEC’s Man tortures non-OPEC rivals intensifies. The European market, long heavyweight Saudi Arabia in pricing its oil against the dominated by Russian oil supplies, has been neglected Brent Weighted Average (BWAVE). by major OPEC producers due to poor growth as they BWAVE is also used by Iran while Iraq is using dated wife to death focused on expanding Asian markets. Brent. Over the past year, because of the way they are But as Russia moved aggressively into Asian markets calculated, barrels priced off dated Brent have on aver- By Hanan Al-Saadoun and with the growing global oil glut heating up the fight age been cheaper than those priced against BWAVE. “All for customers, OPEC members such as Saudi Arabia and you have to do is just to look at who the customers like KUWAIT: A citizen was arrested yesterday in Jahra on charges of torturing Iraq ramped up sales to Europe, taking on former Russian from the point of view of pricing. It is pretty obvious that his wife to death. The man had imprisoned her for three days, during which customers such as Poland and Sweden. Large sales from over the past year, they gravitated towards Iraqi and very he beat and tortured her, which led to her death, according to preliminary Iraq’s Kurdistan into Europe have added to the competi- cheap Kurdish oil,” a second trading source said. investigations. A report from the Interior Ministry’s Relations and Security tion over the past six months and now Kuwait - a usually While changing its pricing policy, KPC also started Media Department referred to the suspect as A. N., a 43-year-old Kuwaiti, little-noticed seller in Europe - is both increasing sales trading more barrels on a spot basis in Europe, following and the victim as D. T., also a Kuwaiti aged 33. It indicated that the man ini- and making its crude more attractive. the sale of its Rotterdam refinery to trading house tially made an emergency call reporting that his wife died, then turned “If we want to have a share in any market, we have to Gunvor. Last month, a senior KPC official said Kuwait himself in to local police. The victim’s body was taken to the Criminal have competitive marketing. That’s what we are doing ... planned to boost output this year and sign new export Evidence General Department to determine the cause of death. we have a legitimate market share that we try to protect deals with European customers despite “fierce competi- Meanwhile, the suspect was jailed pending further legal procedures. and develop,” a senior trading source familiar with the tion”.— Reuters LOCAL SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2016 Sheikh Mohammad Jordanian King affirms leaves to represent Amir at OIC summit coordination with GCC AMMAN: King Abdullah II of Jordan has asserted the continu- KUWAIT: Minister of ous coordination and consultation with GCC leaders on how State for Cabinet Affairs to best serve their joint interests. The King also underscored Sheikh Mohammad the strong ties binding the two sides. The King’s remarks came Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- in a meeting with a number of Jordanian newspaper Editor-in- Sabah left yesterday to Chiefs Thursday night. Indonesia to represent King Abdullah II added that the priority of Jordan is main- His Highness the Amir taining security, adding that Jordanian Armed Forces are fac- Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad ing challenges on a daily basis, saying that such challenges are Al-Jaber Al-Sabah in the being dealt with efficiently, affirming his robust trust in the extraordinary round of Jordanian army. The Jordanian leader said such challenges the Organization of mirror what’s taking place in the region, including the ongoing crises in the region. King Abdullah added that confronting rad- Islamic Cooperation’s Minister of State for (OIC) summit on Cabinet Affairs Sheikh icalism is considered one of the top national issues that must Palestine and Holy Al- Mohammad Abdullah be dealt with, particularly in raising awareness on how to pro- Aqsa Mosque. — KUNA Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah tect the nation through the Jordanian media. — KUNA King Abdullah II Arab Group urges help for handicapped caught up in war GENEVA: The Arab Group at the UN such vulnerable groups as those with Human Rights Council seeks solutions special needs, children, women, and for the plight of people with special the infirm, he noted in his speech. needs caught up in the maelstrom of He said the Arab Group of nations at wars and instances of terrorism, a the UN subscribed earnestly to the Group official said yesterday. notion that people with special needs Representing the Group and address- should be sincerely coopted and ing the Council’s 32nd meeting in assimilated into society with the intent Geneva, Kuwait’s delegate to the UN in of treating them as equal partners to this city, Ambassador Jamal Al- people with no handicaps. He added Ghunaim, said that the Arab countries that people with special needs should were concerned about the fate facing be afforded easy access to information, Scouting conference extols Kuwaiti many children, women, and the elderly transportation, communication, taking in areas of armed struggle. part in daily activities, and to exercising experience in humanitarian work In these areas, often the pervasive- their human rights in full. ness of terrorism has absented any Arab countries, he said, had shown KUWAIT: Attendees of the eighth conference of the scored the need to provide an environment for civil modicum of democracy, the rule of interest in issues related to people Arab Association for Boy Scouts and Girl Guides said society organizations to thrive and grow. law, and human rights, he said, under- with special needs as far back as 1998 yesterday that the Association makes use of the Kuwaiti It moreover brought attention to the need to take lining the fact that in such areas, and when the Arab Organization for experience in humanitarian work.

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